Flood Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Flood Watch is in force for Big Spring Mc Mahon-Wrinkle Airport until 7 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Big Spring Mc Mahon-Wrinkle Airport is 60° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 22 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 53° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:30 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Big Spring Mc Mahon-Wrinkle Airport, Texas.
Precipitation
0.34 in in the last 24 hours, 0.89 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 | 4,601 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 67° / 247° | 16 mph head, on 06 | 17 mph from the left |
| 17 / 35 | 8,803 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 182° / 2° | 22 mph head, on 35 | 7 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Big_Spring (BPG), Big Spring Mc Mahon-Wrinkle Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
61 F at 10 PM Thursday; 73 F at its warmest, 11 AM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 51 F, the air 70% saturated; the humidity ran from 70% at 10 PM Thursday to 97% at 10 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
24 mph from the north northeast at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 31 mph, 6 PM Thursday, with a gust of 46 mph at 11 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.32 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.12 inHg over 3 hours; 0.30 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,000 ft at 1 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 13 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Big_Spring: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Big Spring Mc Mahon-Wrinkle Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Big_SpringBPG
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,572 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Gail 1EFRKT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/38.8 mi away/2,521 ft/52 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Big Spring 2.5 ETX-HWR-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/2,493 ft/80 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Big Spring 5NE Co-OpBGGT2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.8 mi away/2,579 ft/6 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.